Board Thread:Administration Board/@comment-967403-20150313002658

Hey! Jay here!

First off, I like to apologize for my extensive haitus! I've been doing rea life stuff and all my wikia-related stuff went to the Soul Eater Wiki, in which is where I work on it. It's an anime/manga-based wikia so it's a bit different from this. But I also do the Prince of Persia Wikia so I have some experience with video-game related wikias! But anyway, we're making some cool progress. I'm slwoly attracting new users and we're getting a lot of the chapter pages up and the progress has been noted on our tumblr page I run. Plus, we've even reached 1000+ articles! Last year, we were at about 300 something before I started administrating. I feel accomplished as a admin so I want to extend my ability here If possible.

Now, lets get to the reason this is here! As you may have noticed, I've activated the Forums here. This will be the place to use for official discussions. Blog posts are fine but they should only be used for personal reasons. This will be for more of the more wikia stuff we need to discuss. The cool thing too is that I can "hilight" discussions and notify anyone who goes on this wikia! Pretty Neeto!

You'll also noticed I turned on the Message Walls. I know some wikias loathe them but they do make things easier and you don't have to remember to sign as much and I'll know who told he so without looking at the history log. I hope you like that! If you don't, let me know. If enough people voice dislike, I'll turn it off immediately!

Now, there's some things I would like to get done but I can't do it alone and I don't want you people feeling like I'm coming in and changing things for no good reason: There's a lot more things I want to get done around here but that's the basics of it! What do you think? Leaves your questions, concerns, and comments below. I want us to work towards being a good wikia. Maybe one day....we can stand beside the Assassin Creed Wiki or something high-up!  
 * For starters, I know LegionZero really wants to change the format of the pages. And I can see what he means. They're pretty weird from what I'm seeing in other video game wikias. Information also can be all over the place! We need to set up a page layout that specifies the information required and for that section.
 * Another thing: Referencing/Sources. A good change here is to have such things verified. I understand it's annoying but it's necessary. The wikia is full of stuff not sourced and speculation. It's time we got rid of this!
 * More support to the other character pages wouldn't hurt. DMC is it's own universe and our wikia should look at like so in addition to being a helpful strategy guide. I remember polishing my infoboxes and some of the stuff I had was "unecessary" and it equaled to somehow, that stuff was only relevant to Dante.
 * New and more informative Infoboxes. I've already got some of that done! Watch out for that soon.
 * Update policies so we know what to expect on the wikia in terms of behavior, contributions, and how we address certain problems.